"Everyone's here."
The officer's voice wasn't loud, yet it was clearly heard by everyone, "Time is tight, the mission is critical, so let's get straight to it."
He walked to the main control console, and quickly tapped a few times on the light screen.
The huge projection screen behind them instantly lit up, unfolding a map of the Federation's territory that covered the entire planet in extreme detail.
On the map, large areas were covered in glaring colors.
Green represented safety, blue indicated a mild threat, and yellow signaled moderate alert.
But what was really alarming were those red zones which took up almost half of the map!
Even more shocking, the red was so thick it was nearly black.
"The Ghost Festival is coming!" The officer's voice was firm, like the beating of a war drum, "This is the first mission since your special task force was formed, and the only mandatory one."
"Defend the heavily affected areas during the Ghost Festival!"
